The Trinidad and Tobago 50 Plus and Seniors Group paid tribute to several of its volunteers at its annual dinner and dance held last Saturday in Scarborough. The awards were handed out to key players in the vibrant organization. In this photo, they are, from left, Yolanda Russell, Angela Roach, Harry and Gemma Sair Singh, […]
Here’s a video of parang in Toronto at a recent show held at the Blue Danube:
By Jean Hodgkinson Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide -Jean de La Fontaine The aftermath of last week’s Republican defeat supplied late-night TV with plenty of comedic fodder as the conservative spin machine attempted to make sense of the facts, something it doesn’t do very often. Rachel Maddow of […]
Two popular foods grown and consumed in the Caribbean, bananas and cassava, have been cited to fill the gap left as a result of the diminishing sources of calories caused by climate change. A new report Recalibrating Food Production in the Developing World: Global Warming will change more than just the climate by the Consultative […]
By Jasminee Sahoye The human rights hearings into the death of Jamaican migrant worker, Ned Livingston Peart who was killed while working at an Ontario tobacco farm in 2002, comes up on Monday, November 19 at the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal in downtown Toronto. Peart, 39, was crushed to death while working at the Vilaca […]
By Jasminee Sahoye The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is offering three scholarship awards to anyone who lives in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), applied to a post secondary school in Canada and plans to attend in the 2013/2014 academic year. The awards will be handed out to these prospective students during Black History Month […]
Shivnarine Chanderpaul, the 38-year-old veteran left-hander playing in his 145 Tests carved out his second Test double century, 203 not out and now draw level with the legendary Sir Garfield Sobers in scoring his 26th Test century. Shiv is also now behind the world record holder Brian Lara on the West Indies all-time list of […]
Last Tuesday, Hawaii not only elected Japan-born Mazie Hirono to be the first ever Asian-American woman elected to the Senate, they also elected Democrat Tulsi Gabbard as the first ever practicing Hindu to the US House of Representatives. Hawaii has been declared a Fox News Disaster Zone. Thirty-one-year-old Gabbard is the daughter of two conservative […]
By Jasminee Sahoye An immigration strategy that will take Ontario in a new direction has been launched. The aim is for the province to select, welcome and assist immigrants to Ontario and leverage the global connections of the diverse communities in an effort make the province more viable. It emphasizes the critical role skilled immigrants […]
